Sentences with phrase «over drug research»

One of the people Feilding started working with was professor David Nutt, of Imperial University, whose own experience of clashing with authorities over drug research came to a head in 2009 when he was sacked as chair of the Advisory Council of the Misuse of Drugs for ranking drugs according to the harm they do the user and society.

Not exact matches

Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline's head of research and development, Patrick Vallance, is departing the company to head over to the U.K. public sector.

Walmsley, who took over a year ago, is focusing on rebuilding GSK's drug pipeline by overhauling research and appointing heavyweight outsiders, such as veteran Roche scientist Hal Barron.

The institute, which includes over 40 laboratories and more than 300 researchers, said the research would focus on modifying a patient's own immune system T - cells to target a tumor, studying ways to boost patient response to current immunotherapy drugs.

Count all the money Valeant has spent on acquisitions as drug research, and suddenly it has spent 200 % of its revenue over the past five years on R&D.

Sarepta Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: SRPT) shares jumped up over 17 percent during Wednesday's after - hours trading sessions, after the medical research and drug development company crushed earnings estimates.

Something to Sleep On Research on infant sleep risks, which we go over in depth in Chapter 19, shows again and again that the big risks of shared sleep are a mix of SIDS risks that affect vulnerable babies and breathing hazards that affect all babies: smoking, alcohol or drugs, risky surfaces like sofas, baby on his front (unless he's on an adult's chest), and formula - feeding.

The Youth Initiative for Drug Research Information Support and Education, otherwise known as Youth Rise and the All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Connect have lauded the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, over his new initiative aimed at addressing and solving the prevalence of drug abuse in many parts of NigeDrug Research Information Support and Education, otherwise known as Youth Rise and the All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Connect have lauded the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, over his new initiative aimed at addressing and solving the prevalence of drug abuse in many parts of Nigedrug abuse in many parts of Nigeria.

That, noted the research's author Max Chambers, is equivalent to «an estimated 73,000 prisoners over the course of a year whose drug habits are effectively being maintained by the state.»

Over the past year, Kaloyeros has been working with local officials, including those at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, to develop plans announced by Cuomo in December to invest $ 50 million in state funds to build and equip a pharmaceutical drug research and development center at the downtown medical campus.

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

Such drugs are often sold as «legal» highs or «research chemicals» over the internet or in head shops.

Botulinum toxin has undergone a number of reincarnations over the years, from a contaminant in improperly prepared foods, to a laboratory research tool to probe nerve - muscle communication, to a drug to treat problems involving eyes, muscles, and excessive sweating to, most famously, a drug that combats wrinkles for cosmetic purposes.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

Much clinical research will be needed to determine whether those drugs are safe over a long period and have therapeutic benefits for people with Down syndrome,» said Sullivan.

Promega, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, has nearly a thousand employees worldwide and manufactures over two thousand products, consisting of kits and reagents as well as integrated solutions for life science research and drug discovery, genetic identity, and clinical diagnostics.

Until recently the only treatments available for conditions affecting the brain were drugs or surgery — a «hammer over the head approach», according to William Tyler, a biomedical engineer at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke and a pioneer of the new brain stimulation techniques.

Over a year's time, these patients experienced about half as many flare - ups as those taking another commonly prescribed drug, a different research group reported in the same issue of the journal.

Recent hullabaloo over drug companies paying for ghostwritten medical journal articles — that doctors later sign their names to — has raised questions about a wealth of hidden financial arrangements in the medical research community.

«There is no one blood or oral fluid concentration that can differentiate impaired and not impaired,» says Marilyn Huestis, who spent over 20 years leading cannabinoid - related research projects at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

But his research over the years has soured him on the drugs, suggesting they work only marginally better in the average patient than a placebo pill.

Over her time at FDA, Woodcock has moved up, first by running the review group for biologics, then becoming the deputy director of biologics, then head of the Office of Therapeutics, and finally being appointed head of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), a division of FDA committed to ensuring that «all prescription and over-the-counter drugs are safe and effective.»

Despite concerns over the rising use of antipsychotic drugs to treat young people, little has been known about trends and usage patterns in the United States before this latest research, which was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health.

Children and young people admitted to hospital in England with injuries related to self - harming, drugs or alcohol faced an increased risk of killing themselves over the following 10 years, according to new research.

The work builds on the success of the Lincoln team's pioneering research to tackle antimicrobial resistance over the past 22 months to turn teixobactin into a viable drug.

«We've been continually successful, over time, in developing new drugs,» says Richard Gregory, head of research at Genzyme.

A psychiatrist whose failure to disclose drug company income contributed to a furor over conflicts of interest in biomedical research has just received his first National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant in 3 years.

The team from the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology looked at data from over 15,000 patients diagnosed with the disease who were being treated with certain types of immunosuppressive drugs, and found that one in five patients received no influenza vaccinations and one in two patients received no pneumonia vaccine over a five year follow - up period.

Basic research on cancer mechanisms has led to over 40 targeted cancer therapies currently on the market, which take the form of monoclonal antibodies, small molecule drugs, and immunotherapies.

The University of Sheffield and a research radiologist there are fighting over whether the scientist had permission from her bosses and a drug company to submit her osteoporosis work to a conference this summer.

This means that the company has more control over the day - to - day science, but also that the research is more likely to contribute to a successful drug, device or product.

«Over the last few years, our research group has been working on the development of novel drug delivery systems for the treatment of several skin and eye diseases,» said Prof. Lopez.

Yet research and clinical observations over the past 40 years have raised concerns that these drugs produce suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts and possibly even suicide in a small subset of depressed patients.

The study, led by a team in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, is the first of its kind to show these results from an exon - skipping drug — a class of therapeutics that allows cells to skip over missing parts of the gene and produce protein naturally.

The study adds to previous research by lead investigator Kalyani Sonawane, Ph.D., demonstrating that the drug treatment, which combines two drugs in a single pill, known as fixed - dose combination, has several advantages over other approaches for adjusting blood pressure medication.

«Over 400,000 people die of malaria each year, and resistance to common antimalarial drugs is growing,» says Professor Mike Blackman, Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute, who led the research.

Over the past decade, high - content analysis (HCA) has become widely adopted in both academic research and drug discovery laboratories.

Press reports over the last 15 years detail how whistle - blowers inside academia and within the FDA who have attempted to expose drug - research and safety issues have been pressured.

Indeed, earlier research at Penn identified that a majority of prescription drugs act on enzymes and proteins that oscillate over 24 hours.

The research team, led by Renee Goodwin, PhD, in the Department of Epidemiology, analyzed data from the National Household Survey on Drug Use, an annual cross-sectional study of approximately 497, 000 Americans, ages 12 and over.

«Over the past five to 10 years, types of illicit drugs used around the world have been created or repurposed from research chemicals to mimic the effects of traditional drugs of abuse in order to circumvent legal control and detection,» explained corresponding author Sabra Botch - Jones, MS, MA, D - ABFT, forensic toxicologist and instructor in the Biomedical Forensic Sciences program in the department of anatomy and neurobiology at BUSM.

Due to its relatively high prevalence, the disabling nature of temporal lobe seizures, and the difficulty of treating with drugs, there has been much research study on this type of epilepsy, particularly over the past 20 years.

Based on our findings, the occurrence of cancer is much higher in adults over 75 years of age compared with the proportion of patients in this age group who enroll in clinical trials,» said lead study author Bindu Kanapuru, MD, medical officer in the Division of Hematology Products, Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, who presented the results at the 59th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, held December 9 — 12 in Atlanta.

She has over 10 years of experience in the research field in various areas including clinical trials studies, neuroimaging studies, drug addiction, and developmental psychology.

With an over $ 70 million commitment over multiple years from the NIH and the Wellcome Trust, H3Africa is designed to create and support a pan-continental network of labs that will be equipped to apply leading - edge research to the study of the genetic and environmental basis of disease susceptibility and drug responses in Africans.

Rudolf will receive more than $ 900,000 over five years to support his research on discovering new drugs from natural resources using cytochrome P450 enzymes.

The research group conducted high throughput screening of over 1000 compounds consisting of existing drugs, including those approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of USA, Europe or Asia, and drugs under clinical trial, to search for drugs that can regulate the circadian rhythm in mammals.

Over the past five years oncology research has exploded, with fast - paced development schedules delivering breakthrough drugs that are changing the standard of care.

One key aspect that her research group has devoted its efforts to over the past 15 years is expanding the toolkit of building blocks to include fluorinated aliphatic amino acids to improve the pharmacokinetic and physicochemical profiles of peptide / protein - based drugs and materials, respectively.

Furthermore, the need to watch over the patient, «for hours after treatment may make this an impractical drug to clinically use and further research into dosages is required,» Manevitz said.